[Qgis-developer] QGIS for water

[Saber Razmjooei]

Robert

Feel free to add your ideas on the wiki page. It's an early start and
will see which direction(s) things will evolve to.

Cheers
Saber


On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 19:02 +0200, Robert Szczepanek wrote:
> W dniu 27.06.2011 18:24, G. Allegri pisze:
> > Maybe OMS could be a better route?
> >
> > giovanni
> 
> You are right. I was talking already about it with Andrea from 
> HydroloGIS. This alternative must be considered.
> 
> > 2011/6/27 Saber Razmjooei <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk
> >     Hopefully OpenMI will take off soon.
> 
> Why?
> 
> >     As you know, the software packages are very diverse for water modelling.
> >     What will be great to see, in short term, to offer QGIS as a platform
> >     for model building, post processing, etc. The intention, at least at
> >     this stage, is not to write yet another modelling package.
> 
> In short term - agree.
> 
> >     There are several organizations/companies stuck with ESRI/Mapinfo/etc
> >     products to deal with their GIS input/output files. I guess to start
> >     with,  will be good to persuade these types of users to migrate their
> >     GIS platform to QGIS by offering some simple set of tools to deal with
> >     their modelling packages.
> 
> My goal is not related to import/export routines, which for sure are 
> also important. I don't treat QGIS just as GIS environment, but as 
> potential modelling environment.
> Very seldom products you are talking are comprehensive. What I propose, 
> is to implement common interface on top of those products. This way 
> implementation will be much easier, or not ;).
> 
> Robert